Posted 4 years ago on Jan. 26, 2012, 11:22 p.m. EST by ZenDogTroll
(13032)
from South Burlington, VT
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Some insist the Occupy Movement is in dire straights, utter disarray, soon to fold completely and disappear from the American landscape.

This is of course, the hopeful notion of fools deluded by the allure of current market opportunities and the empty promises made by those propping up a system of fraud and of corruption.

Marketing firms, on the contrary, know full well what mood the nation is in. Consider the television advertisement airing on CBS in the Burlington area promoting a JCP sale dated 2.1.12.

It features few verbalizations - screams of rage, and a single word articulated in a variety of ways -

No

These screams and verbalizations of no are juxtaposed with images that feature various sales markdowns. The first and most prominent of these indicate a sale of some 60%

Yesterday and yesterday only

This advertisement is featuring inherent unfairness as a sales gimmick. This reflects the depths that this issue has breached the social consciousness.

Inherent unfairness within our social and economic infrastructure will not go away on its own accord.

Nor will the current mood of the people.

The Occupy Movement is simply representative of the more agitated specturm within that overall mood - and so long as unfairness remains institutionalized to the degree that it currently does, this mood will become more prevalent and more pronounced.

Sophisticated marketing firms know this is true, they know it is true because they have sophisticated demographic analytical tools that can quantify in detail public sentiment.

Sophisticated marketing firms have empirical evidence - inherent unfairness is a subject on the public mind.

Occupy will soon split. Those who want to work within the government by making demands will become more prominent than the anarchists. Either they will take over Occupy, or they will create a new protest/movement. I think this will happen sometime after the elections when making demands to a newly elected President will make a whole lot of sense.

Most Americans don't want to replace the republic with general assemblies on each street corner, and most are not ready for a civil war that would be required to overthrow the government. The ideals of the anarchists represent a tiny fraction of the 99%.

He is advocating the electoral reform act 2012 - and I'm not sure if I've seen this one or not. There are several proposals before the public at this point, including at least three proposed Amendments to the Constitution.

Excellent Post. We have only just begun. There is a long road ahead and much work to be done. That is OK. We are American workers, we know how to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. I shit you not!!!!!!!!!!!!

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by ZenDogTroll
(13032)
from South Burlington, VT
4 years ago

Generally I think most people tend to know when they are treating others unfairly - not always perhaps but most of the time.

We see responsible parents spend an inordinate amount of time attempting to teach such principles to their children.

Humanity has had such difficulty with this issue that the Judeo/Christian tradition tells us this is the reason for the law and the prophets.

We have some stark examples of unfairness today - beginning with the influence of monied interests on our electoral process - this is one where there is widespread public agreement, and even some members of Congress favor changes in this regard.

Staying with this example, we do see how deeply the principle of unfairness has been institutionalized within our political system by those who oppose changes that will curb the influence of money on our politics.

To simply say life is unfair is no justification for unfairness in our interactions with each other any more than it is in the policies that govern us.

It is our obligation, to ourselves, and to future generations, to attempt to rectify these instances when they arise.

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by ZenDogTroll
(13032)
from South Burlington, VT
4 years ago

You must be new around here - the answer is that the voting booth is a place where Americans may effect change.

Given the state of the nation I would suggest that today, the place to be most effective may begin on the street - and I say that after having observed the influence of the Occupy Movement on members of Congress, on television broadcasting, and on the advertisers who pay for time on the air.

But it never was a movement. That's was always just aspirational hype.

But when you claim to represent virtually everyone, but even in our biggest cities, the only people that show up are tiny numbers of maladapted life-long socialists and needy and inexperienced 20-somethings, one thing is clear: You don't.

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by ZenDogTroll
(13032)
from South Burlington, VT
4 years ago

But it never was a movement

You can debate that at this point if you like, to which the college kids will insist that it is indeed a movement, one that is global in scope, and that the Occupy Movement here in the U.S. does indeed find international solidarity with other organizations who have expressed support.

College kids, thanks for the reminder. Yeah, that was funny, probably no funnier than Occupy Harvard. Whaaa, whaaa, make someone else pay my student loans.

Maybe the OWSers want to shut up about the whole Egypt thing too. Yeah, solidarity with a bunch of lunatic muslims that trade one tyranny for another. Now they do virginity checks. Solidarity! Just another data point about the utter thoughtlessness and misdirected energy of these people.

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by ZenDogTroll
(13032)
from South Burlington, VT
4 years ago

Egypt has a completely different culture than we do. They got rid of a corrupt leader and now they have the bureaucracy that supported his rule to deal with.

What you just said - "the OWSers want to shut up about the whole Egypt thing . . . Now they do virginity checks. Solidarity!" suggests doing nothing in the face of flagrant disregard for basic human dignity. The virginity checks are deliberately intended to humiliate and to intimidate women in Egypt, thus stripping them of their voice.

The U.S. government is a major supporter of the Egyptian military. I don't think it is likely that the Occupy Movement will end it's support for the Egyptian revolution. The people of Egypt are not done, the Occupy movement will and does continue to support them, this is not only an obligation for anyone who holds matters of justice and human rights as essential to the future of humanity; it is also likely to produce some positive results -

Pressure on the U.S. government by the people is likely to result in pressure from the U.S. government on the current Egyptian leadership to curb such practices.

The OWS moonbats are indiscriminate in "solidarity" because it doesn't stand for anything other than simpleminded energy of protest and whining. That's why they talk of "solidarity" with Egypt; that's why they can't comprehend that islamic tyranny is now their choice. Yes, solidarity with Islamists. Fantastic. It's about as thought of as the other OWS dribble.

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by ZenDogTroll
(13032)
from South Burlington, VT
4 years ago

really?

Because that's strange - I really thought that solidarity with feminists within the Islamic world was one fine method of undercutting those who support theocracy based on religious dogma including sharia law . . .